Silberengel on Nostr: Y'all realize that vibe-coding is a play by hardware, cloud, mobile plan, and ...

Y'all realize that vibe-coding is a play by hardware, cloud, mobile plan, and operating system producers to get you to all buy more expensive computers and cell phones, and/or to purchase access to data center computation and faster Internet, right?

Right?

You know that, right?

You know that you can refactor the AI-generated code down to like a third of the size and eliminate half of the functionality, and it will still do the same stuff, right?

You knew that. Of course, you did.

Vibe-coding gone wild is why Nostr apps are so incredibly inefficient.

*WE ALL KNEW THAT, RIGHT?*

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This is actually an incredibly expensive way to develop, tho. It's faster because you front-load all the computation, but that means all the "thinking" has to be paid for in advance, and you can't lower that price tag by doing some of the thinking yourself.

If I hadn't intervened and hit the stop, it would have just gone on to translate the entire Latin Bible, all the Saints histories, etc. and then hit me with the bill.

Also, it's almost always the case that the solutions offered are less efficient than what I would have built, and bug-fixes just pile more code on top of the bugs, rather than correcting anything.

Have to watch it like a hawk and reject every second or third suggestion because they're bullshit.